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Description: | Group of children playing in a rowboat in a Mississippi River inlet. Alma, Wisconsin is in the background on the opposite shoreline. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Oblique view from the Mississippi River. Two young women are in a rowboat near the shoreline, and two young men are fishing in the river. Alma at the foot ... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman is holding an umbrella... |
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Description: | View from below of wood burning locomotive and single car on elevated railroad bridge and approach trestle, somewhere along the upper Mississippi River. La... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Baby sitting on Mother's lap in front yard. The picture being taken in Ridgeway has not been confirmed. |
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Description: | Panoramic view of workers in Beef Slough arranging logs for transport. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | One of Gerhard Gesell's daughters (Wilma or Bertha) sitting in a rowboat holding a bouquet of Mississippi River water lilies. She is seated in the stern, t... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Men on shoreline are returning logs with horses, which have been stranded on a sandbar, to the main channel of the Mississippi River. Beef Slough Company w... |
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Description: | Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | A display of items needed when changing a baby's diaper. The picture being taken in Ridgeway has not been confirmed. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | A baby lies on the dining table playing with his feet while his mother looks on. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View of Alma across river from sandbar. A rowboat is on the sandbar, and on the right a father and child are standing posed each with one foot on a log. |
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Description: | Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood. |
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Description: | Five men ride horses and kick up a cloud of dust along a country road. A small homestead is in the background. |
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Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
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Description: | Three steamers, the "Robert Dodds," the "Stillwater," and, the "Lady Grace," transporting logs in Beef Slough. |
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Description: | "Crazy Man's Castle" near Minneiska, Minnesota. Built of lumber salvaged from Mississippi River log and lumber rafts which occasionally lost some of their ... |
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Description: | Lumber raft in the water near the shoreline with two paddle wheel steamboats and a bluff in the distance. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | Christmas postcard of four men and one woman in a rowboat on the Mississippi River. In the background is the town of Alma at the foot of bluffs. The woman ... |
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